Design considerations for an electrooptic directional coupler modulator

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 598-605

  Anwar, N ^a   Themistos, C ^a   Azizur Rahman, B M ^a   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ELECTROOPTIC DIRECTIONAL COUPLER MODULATORS; LEAST SQUARES BOUNDARY RESIDUAL (LSBR) METHOD;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0032634542     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.754789     Document Type: Article

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